BULBOUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 6j 



approved or defirable forts, they will foon 

 multiply by off-fets to encreafe the ftock. 



The principal feafon for planting them, i» 

 th: latter end of Autumn, from the middle 

 or end of September, till November or De- 

 iicember; though Oftober and November is a 

 fifuccefsful time for the general planting : or 

 ;: moft of the forts will alfo fucceed by early 

 • Spring-planting, not later than February, or 

 [ beginning of March, though they will feldom 

 I fiower fo ilrong the fame year as thofe planted 

 I in Autumn, efpecially in many of the bulbous 

 i kinds ; and in foihe forts, as moft of the fcaly 

 j bulbous tribe, as crown-imperial, and all the 

 lily kind, being compofed of many fiefhy 

 fucculent fcales, which, if the bulbs are re- 

 tained long out of the ground, are generally 

 apt to (brink and walle, it is moil advifeable 

 to plant them fqon in Autumn. 



But in the anemones and ranunculufes it is 

 proper to plant a portion in Au-umn, in Odo- 

 ber or November, for early Spring flowering, 

 ^nd a principal fupply planted in February or 

 March, for a fuccelTion and principal blow in 

 May ; or a fmaller portion may alfo be planted 

 in April, for late flowering in June. 



As to the order of planting the various 

 forts, they may, in the greater part, be planted 

 in the common border:* or beds in ailemblage 

 with other flowering plants ; and in the ca- 

 pital tulips, hyacinths, polyanthos-narciiTus, 

 ranunculufes, anemones, &:c. it may be proper 

 to plant a colleftion of each in beds by them- 

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